"Laurens (henri-joseph) - Imircée Or The Daughter Of Nature. 1776."
DU LAURENS (Henri-Joseph) - Imircée or the daughter of nature. London, se, 1776; in-8, XXIV, 328 pp., full-calf marbled vintage binding, spine decorated with 5 nerves, marbled edges. Entering orders at the age of 19, Henri-Joseph du Laurens, to whom this text is attributed, succeeds in being hated by the canons as well as the Jesuits. He therefore left monastic life and published a text against the Jesuits, entitled Jésuitiques then Le Balai (1761), L'Aretin (1763), Imirce (1765), Le Compère Mathieu, or Les Bigarrures de l'Esprit Humain (1766) and La Chandelle d'Arras (1765). Denounced as a licentious author in Mainz, he ended his life between prison and supervised convent, and died in 1793. Good condition.